Friday, March 11, 2011

Random Ramblings

This week has been a blur of activity in our household. With the arrival of spring comes ball and trap shooting practice. The adjective, busy, would currently be an understatement for us. So much like this past week, this post is a bit crazy. Sort of a miss-mash of what's up on the farm.

The following picture is one I dug out of my archives while searching for something to submit for a photography contest. Why these yellow butterflies loved this old baseball is a mystery, but I love how vibrant they look against the drab background.

Yet another found photo of Mr. Praying Mantis.

And here we have a Passion Flower that I had totally forgotten existed in my files. I found this while out walking on the farm one day. Seriously. There was only one flower in a mixed hedge of Blackberry Brambles and thorny tree limbs. I have been back to its location, but haven't witnessed another blossom like this.

During the occasional free moment my family has been checking out the Eagles, Liberty and Belle. They are on a nest in West Virginia and their two eggs are set to hatch any day now. It is a live camera feed and thus far I have witnessed the mom and dad trade nest duties. Also, the male brought the mom a snack. Yes....I watched her eat the mouse. Educational, if nothing else. If you would like to watch Liberty and Belle, you can do so here.

I have had several people tag me with awards and meme's in the last month. I confess that I am not very good about posting those, though I very much appreciate the recognition. So, in an overall response I shall not bore any of you with details about myself, but I shall leave you with a list of my all time favorite books. I would love to hear what yours might be.

The Alchemist

The Poisonwood Bible

Cold Mountain

Thirteen Moons

Animal, Vegetable Mineral

The Scarlet Letter

The Widow of the South

Prodigal Summer

A huge thanks to all of those who take the time to leave a comment here. I read each one and enjoy them immensely.

Oh....and one more thing. Why does Blogger either leave too many spaces between my paragraphs or no spaces at all?

I love your butterfly photo...they do like that baseball, uh?I'm going to have to check out your favorite books...I haven't read any of them (perhaps Scarlet Letter many years ago)Blogger...ugh...I hastle with the spaces every day and it just seems to have a mind of its own/ha

Love the pics! and yes i have terrible problems with the whole spacing thing, but i have found out if you check your post in Html before publishing you can make the spaces go away... you have to figure out how many times you have to hit the space button on your keyboard, but it does work.

That flower is beautiful, so glad you captured it! I'm familiar with some of the books but not all, which I will add to my list. Blogging has lead me to many wonderful reads! Blogger however, has definitely been testy lately. What IS up with that?

Poisonwood Bible is on my list to read, but haven't yet. I have read several others you mentioned. Regarding Blogger and its spacing (or lack of), I thought I was doing something wrong. Glad to know I'm in good company. :-) No solution, though.

I am SOOO excited about the Passion Flower photo as my daughter took photos of this beautiful flower last summer and we did NOT know WHAT it is! I looked and looked and could not find a flower to match it and YOURS is the EXACT flower!

That baseball photo is amazing. That looks like an award winner to me! Thank you for the birthday wish! My two most favorite books "Neither Wolf, Nor Dog and Portrait of an Artist: A Biography of Georgia O'Keeffe

Some of my all time favourite books are angels and demons, jonathan livingston seagull and short stories by Premchand.

I thought I was only one having all those spacing problems, feels kind of good to know I am not alone! The extra spaces after full stops return an extra line sometimes, its really irritating.. the formatting takes a lot of time!

Neat pics! Especially that passion flower. I don't believe I've ever seen one of those in person.As far as the books, most of my reading is done through blogs or my textbooks, so I don't have much to say on that subject right now. Although I do love to read myself to sleep at night.Can't help you with the Blogger issue, since I only know Wordpress.

A most unusual post. When I first saw the butterfly image, I thought it was a plant. It shows how the mind plays visual tricks on you. Thanks for the link to the Eagles nest, I'll have to keep watching it.

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A transplant from the city trying to make a life in a small southern town....where everyone knows my business before I do. Known as a, "Farmchick", because I'm a little bit of farm and a lot of chick. Not famous in this small town, people just talk about me like I am.
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